‘West End or dressage’ choice sealed for pony rider starring at Winter Dressage Championships

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Violet Hawkins and Glenlichd Fair Un Square at Winter Dressage Championships 2024
VIOLET HAWKINS
(Image credit: Kevin Sparrow Photography)

A 12.2hh pony proved he could mix it with the big guns in the Baileys Horse Feeds Novice Freestyle Gold Championship at the 2024 NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships. Glenlichd Fair Un Square, ridden by a beaming 14-year-old Violet Hawkins, scored 70.28%, with Pam Bushell the judge at C awarding them 73.89%. The class was won by Jezz Palmer on Toddington Debut (75.37%).

Fair Un Square, a 14-year-old by Llanarth Charmer, strutted around the blue-lit indoor arena at Addington like a horse twice his size, with his purposeful walk and medium canter the highlights.

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.